Helicopter pilot

Russian

Director (mostly foreign art house)

Arms dealer/warlord

Ringo Starr

Warehouse stock worker

Bodyguard

Installation artist

Coach to the German gymnastic team

Taxi driver

Member of the Weather Underground

Sheep farmer

There are many things you’d guess before “surfer” if someone asked you to identify this stranger above. “Waterman” and “professional athlete” probably aren’t on the list either.

Which, in a roundabout way, is part of what makes Dion interesting. Enough so to make a documentary series on. Which we did.